iOS/Mobile Developers
Location: NZ, N, Wellington
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
Who are we?Vend is an award winning web based point of sale software for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software, all of this to make life easier for our retailers.  Vend is a fast-growing tech start-up, since launching in 2010 we’ve now got 10,000+ customers all over the world and have more than 100 employees. In case you’re interested in our tech stack we use Capistrano, Redis, Git / Github, Vagrant, Jenkins, Puppet, Resque, New Relic, Doctrine, MySQL, Objective C, PHP, JavaScript, GO, Symfony, Rake, Selenium, Compass, SASS, jQuery, Bundler, Nginx, and a bunch of other things.Why you’d like us:Our engineering department houses some of the smartest minds in NZ, they work tirelessly with our product teams to come up with the best and brightest new features and fixes for the Vend platform. As you can see from our tech stack above, we use the latest and greatest to bring delight to our customers, and want to add members to our team that live and breathe technology just like we do.As well as developing a world-leading product, we believe that our culture is world-leading too! We balance super hard work with having a lot of fun at work!  Like playing pool, getting a Dia de los Muertos makeover, zoning out on the couches listening to music or raiding the snack cupboard (FYI frozen marshmallows are the latest craze at Vend - seriously, try them!). Work-life balance.  We know you have a life outside of work. We know you probably have little side projects or businesses too. This is valued and at Vend you can have a life inside work to. We welcome all of you at work.  We don’t want you to leave your personality at the door. So, close the window on your latest beautiful creation for a moment and get in touch.  Utilise all your talents.  Not just the ones written in your job description.

Requirements:
We want to hear from you if: You have five years experience with Swift.. Just kidding. We want you to write beautiful, fast Objective-C to a high standard, in a timely and scalable way that improves the code-base of our mobile products in meaningful waysYou have experience successfully deploying apps to the app store. Plenty of experience working with RESTful web services is essentialYou Ideally have experience with automated testing in a commercial Objective-C development environmentYou have a commitment to the iOS / mobile community and have open sourced some code or contributed to an open source projectWhile Vend is totally open to receiving applications from people based overseas, our recruitment process for technical talent is lengthy and involves a lot of face-to-face time between our candidates and existing team members here. We can start initial stages of interviewing using awesome technology like Skype and Google Hangouts, we really need you to be here and to have hung out with us in Auckland before making a job offer.

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